Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Day 2 TeachUp! Reflection

So we began today by taking some notes, and discussing some hints and tips and rules for how to being working with the teachers in the schools. This was followed by splitting into groups and creating power point presentations to support the discussion.

This was all very well, and went a long way to helping me at least feel more confident and secure about the approaches that I could in order to begin forming a working relationship with the teachers at whatever school I expect to find myself at.

The second half of the day, however, presented an interesting challenge. My group was assigned to create a movie on professionalism using the windows movie maker program in only 2 hours.

This proved to be a feat. not only in the sense that anyone who has ever made a movie from scratch knows that it requires at least 2 hours of planning. But despite a litany of technical errors such as internet speed issues, and not being able to download any videos, and a torrent of crashing software. I believe we successfully pulled it off.

Once again, much acknowledgments must be made to J.J. Sylvia without whose instruction it would not have been possible (see the complete video below).

Also many props to Group A who despite all the errors, and all the frustration, and stress was able to hold it together, and work together to create a completed product!

Congratulations!

Here is your image for the day. . .you've earned it.

3 comments:

  1. Our group today also face certain obstacles with the Windows Movie Maker. I must say that we fount it in our hearts to work together and to also come up with a solution to the problem. J.J. Sylvia was a big help and a great leader who was their to find the answer to our problem no matter how hard or long it took. I give him a big thumbs up!!!

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  2. You guys did a great job pulling through despite all of the obstacles, and were able to remain calm and patient through it all. That's definitely a skill that will come in handy while working in your school. Good job getting a final product created and posted to your blog!

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  3. We were all definitely faced with obstacles today. Today was like a lesson within a lesson. After today, I think we all left feeling like conquerors!

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